Legal Systems Very Different From Ours

A discussion of legal systems very different from the U.S. legal system. This is of interest to me as a politics geek, and also as a Dungeons and Dragons player.

To give you a quick idea of what’s there, here is the table of contents:

Introduction

1. Imperial Chinese Law
2. Romani Law
3. The Amish
4. Jewish Law
5. Islamic Law
6. When God is the Legislator.
7. Pirate Law
8. Prisoners’ Law
9. Student Law [Not yet in]
10. Embedded and Polylegal Systems
11. Saga-Period Iceland
12. Somali Law
13. Early Irish Law
14. Comanche, Kiowa and Cheyenne: The Plains Indians
15. Feud Law
16. England in the Eighteenth Century
17. Athenian Law: The Work of a Mad Economist
18. Enforcing Rules
19. The Problem of Error
20. Making Law
21. Guarding the Guardians
22. Ideas We Can Use